yeah this is weird, sick leave entitlements and super are literally part of your income/salary/whatever

Today, the day of the Met Gala, the unionized workers of the Met posted this image to their Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DX64ioYjecG/

If you love teaching books, come work with us at La Trobe (0.6FTE until 2029). We are great and love teaching books too. careers.pageuppeople.com/mob/533/caw/...

Australia's government has signed $60m of Palantir contracts. It owns $160m of Palantir shares. But what does the pro-Trump company actually do for us? Internal documents shows how an agency uses it to analyse 42 million call records, messages and other data points

We are gonna have to circle back to this.

Amid a housing crisis and power imbalance, renters feel compelled to hand over extensive personal information. The Privacy Commissioner’s decision shows that this situation must change.

Palantir's CEO published a manifesto arguing Western tech firms have a "moral debt" to US military dominance, that AI weapons are inevitable, and that "some cultures are dysfunctional." This isn't just a regularly evil tech or defence contractor, it’s a fascist political project.

Negotiating Openness under Authoritarian Risk: Feminist Open Data Sharing in Hong Kong by Lucas Wong & Tak-Yin Yumi Wong in The Journal of Electronic Publishing 29(1). Charts the tension between visibility and vulnerability in open data. doi: doi.org/10.3998/jep....

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It's UN World Creativity & Innovation Day – and my 50th birthday 🎈 "Creativity shows who we are… Direct public funding remains <0.6% global GDP… declining globally… as AI advances, culture is still absent from governance debates…" Today and every day: stand up for artists. www.un.org/en/observanc...

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New open access paper! In this commentary piece, @micronarrative.bsky.social and I argue that older adult perspectives on mobile AI must be included in their design, implementation and regulation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....

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Delightful news from ACMI. Thank god this is happening next year when my son will be old enough to show the appropriate level of excitement (off the charts).

I will bet it never crossed any of these people's minds that this indicates a perception of bias *away* from dignity and respect for trans and disabled people. It only goes one way. Conservatives are once again granted the position of "neutrality" and "reason" that is always denied to progressives.

"If policymakers wish to genuinely reduce harm to young people online, they must take seriously the task of challenging models based on behavioural advertising, profiling and problematic algorithm-driven feeds." My latest for The Guardian on the news that the ban, unsurprisingly, isn't working

“one bloke and his fragile ego” 💯

We don't have "car culture" by accident. We have it because Labor, and the Libs and Nats spent decades building cities where the car is the encouraged option. Telling people to drive less while funding suburban sprawl and multilane roads is like telling people to eat less while subsidising KFC.

I don’t necessarily need my fears reflected in research but does make me feel less like I’m imagining things.

🙃 Am i wrong or is this a proposal for individualised AI-generated content that reflects your worldview?

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I found it, the most deranged way a grocery store has ever displayed pasta sauce

It is fucking insane to me that the government refuses to learn any lessons from Robodebt and instead seems to want to roll out more opaque data-driven systems totally divorced from lived experience and actual need. Shameful and embarrassing for Labor. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Incredible stuff.

Jogging French sailor reveals location of aircraft carrier

all power to Huerta. we need an open reckoning with the sexual (not to mention economic) exploitation of women as workers in the labour movement

this claims that there is no theoretical limit to the demand for hyper-personalized content; but the actual demand for actual content is dictated by social relations (desiring the desire of the other, etc.) arxiv.org/pdf/2601.06060

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

reminded of my most dad coded political opinion which is that we need a universal Naps and Lil Snacks For All program

Nyadol Nyuon spot on: “Feminism is a site of power, and a site of power will, unless it works very deliberately, continue to reproduce the behaviours of power.” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...

one carefully deployed “you sound fucking insane” can change a man’s entire life trajectory

It's like when your toddler throws your phone into the toilet and then after he gets into trouble he gives you a little cuddle and it's like, look, that doesn't fix the actual problem, but it's nice.

i hate being right

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

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The Bondi Royal Commission has confirmed it won’t be examining the Bondi attack. Top work, everyone.

The Albanese government has sleepwalked into another Robodebt scenario, where unfounded optimism in AI and automated decision-making has once again left Australians at the mercy of an uncaring robot bureaucrat.

GOOD

A teenage girl begging the alleged grown-ups running the country to do something about the relentless misogyny she experiences online. Social media bans won't address misogyny - that requires ongoing commitment and resources. Bans are low-hanging fruit but they can't do what they promise.

I know he’s excommunicated but is he the most senior member of the royal family to be arrested since… Charles I? Anne Boleyn? Maybe Mary Queen of Scots? Good company lol

Perfect email auto-reply

Incredible commentary from this Swiss announcer, who accurately characterizes the Israeli team as "Self-defined zionist to the core...who posted several messages in favour of the genocide in Gaza...calling it ‘the most morally just war in history.’” Solidarity to a real one.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

This is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association. Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

all these emails between academics and Epstein are more testimony of what women in academia have to contend with 😡

Nothing like working on a highly competitive grant application with a small, unwell child to make you feel like you’re about to have a nervous breakdown 😅